Psychiatry, Human Rights and the Law

Table of Contents

1. The historical background: the past 25 years since the Mental Health Act of 1959 Martin Roth
2. The social and medical consequences of recent legal reforms of mental health law in the USA Alan A. Stone
3. The recent Mental Health Act in the United Kingdom Robert Bluglass
4. Medical and social consequences of the Italian Psychiatric Care Act of 1978 P. Sarteschi, G. B. Cassano, M. Mauri and A. Petracca
5. Lessons for the future drawn from United States legislation and experience Robert J. Cambell
6. Recent developments in relation to mental health and the law in the Federal Republic of Germany H. Helmchen
7. Psychopathy and dangerousness William H. Reid
8. Dangerousness in social perspective Jean Floud
9. Psychiatric explanations as excuses Nigel Walker
10. Detention of patients: administrative problems facing Mental Health Review Tribunals Sir John Wood
11. Developments in forensic psychiatry services in the National Health Service John R. Hamilton
12. The role of psychiatry in prisons and 'the right to punishment John Gunn
13. Human rights in mental health Larry Gostin
14. Changes ion mental health legislation as indicators of changing values and policies Margaret A. Somerville
15. The Danish experience: one model of psychiatric testimony to courts of law Villars Lunn
16. A postscript on the discussions at the Cambridge Conference on Society, Psychiatry and the Law Martin Roth and Robert Bluglass.

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